Ascension Changelog

Removed Attunement requirement for Karazhan Flex.

Removed Ilvl requirement from Heroic Dungeons

The Reinforced Fel Iron Strongbox inside Hellfire Ramparts that can be opened after defeating Vazruden the Herold will now correctly award 2 Mystic Orbs on heroic difficulty.

Reduced the duration of Pathaleon the Calculator's Domination to 6 seconds down from 10 seconds.

Sunseekers Blessing used by Sunseeker Channeler's inside The Botanica now increases effected targets damage dealt by 100% down from 125% and now lasts for 30 seconds down from 60 seconds.

Arcatraz Sentinel's inside The Arcatraz are no longer immune to Bleed effects.

Player under the control of Pathaleon the Calculator in The Mechanar will now take 50% less damage and deal 50% less damage.

Shirrak the Deathwatcher inside The Auchenai Crypts will now hit targets in a cone infront of him when applying Carnivorous Bite instead of all enemies around him and the maximum amount of stacks has been reduced to 5, down from 50.

Shirrak the Deathwatcher inside The Auchenai Crypts will now increase the cast time of enemies effected by his Inhibit Magic by 25% per stack, down from 50%. The maximum cast time increase is 100% now, down from 200% if a player is effected by 4 stacks by standing within 15 yards of the boss.

Arcane Lightning used by Sethekk Oracle inside The Sethekk Halls now chains to a maximum of 2 additional targets, down from 4 and has its silence duration reduced to 3 seconds down from 5.

Counterspell used by Arcane Fiends summoned by Ethereal Sorcerer inside The Mana-Tombs has its duration reduced to 4 seconds, down from 15 seconds.

Player under the effect of Charming Totem's charm, summoned by Time-Lost Controller inside the Sethekk Halls will now take 50% less damage and deal 50% less damage.

Charming Totems summoned by Time-Lost Controller inside the Sethekk Halls will now charm a target for a maximum of 6 seconds and attempt to charm another target when the effect runs out. Before the charm had no maximum duration and would last untill the totem was killed or untill its duration ends.

Warlord Kargath Bladefist inside the Shattered Halls will no longer damage pets with his Bladerush ability.

Player under the control of The Maker in The Bloodfurnace will now take 50% less damage and deal 50% less damage.

Fel Infusion casted on Bonechewer Ripper by Shadowmoon Scryer's inside the Hellfire Ramparts will now expire after 60 seconds if the effect is not refreshed.

Nazan's Fireball and Blaze ability will no longer effect pets.

Corrected an issue where Omor the Unscarred would use his Demonic Shield ability to frequently.

Corrected an issue where Omor the Unscarred's Bane of Treachery would scale with the effected players damage increasing auras.

Corrected an issue where it was possible for Omor the Unscarred inside the Hellfire Ramparts to miss or fail his Shadow Whip ability, whish in rare situation could cause the target of his Orbital Strike to be teleported out of the dungeon.

Omor the Unscarred's Bane of Treachery has its radius reduced to 8 from 15 yards and will no longer damage pets.

Reduces the Magic damage of all heroic dungeon creatures and bosses by ~20%.

Watchkeeper Gargolmar's Surge ability will no longer effect pets.

Reduces the healing done of all heroic dungeon creatures and bosses by ~27%.

Reduces the health of all heroic dungeon creatures and bosses by ~27%.

Reduces the Physical damage of all heroic dungeon creatures and bosses by ~30%.

Reduced the health of Gatewatcher Ironhand, inside The Mechanar by ~30%.

Reduced the health of Summoned Bloodwarder Mender, summoned during the Commander Saranis encounter inside The Botanica by ~50%.

Reduced the health of Malicious Instructor's inside the Shadow Labyrinth by ~50%.

Reduced the health of Fel Overseer's inside the Shadow Labyrinth by ~50%.

Fixed an issue where Feral Swiftness incorrectly gave dodge chance in Bear Form in spite of this not being in the tooltip.

Pending restart, Hand of Death will now follow it's original target (This change will also require a patch update).

Pending restart, Finger of Death will now follow it's original target (This change will also require a patch update).

Pending restart, corrected an issue where "Carbon Buildup" is shown as a buff instead of a debuff.

Pending restart, the Ethereal Bazaar will have 8 more slots each cycle.

Added Gossip Text when you click on the Transmogrifier explaining the system briefly.

Added a Transmogrifier NPC next to the Ethereal Bazaar in all Capital Cities.

Corrected an issue where Hack and Slash would not trigger with a single one-handed weapon (Swashbuckler).

Corrected an issue where Hack and Slash Main Hand's attack would sometimes fail to proc.

Corrected an issue where Sword Specialization would not trigger with a single one-handed weapon (Swashbuckler).

Corrected an issue where Sword Specialization would sometimes fail to proc.

Shade of Aran will now use a weaker version of his Ultimate Arcane Explosion on Flex Difficulty, allowing player to use strong defensive abilities to survive the ability in an emergency situation.

Black Sack of Gems will now always contain 3 rare quality gems.

Magtheridon's Cleave has been renamed to Mortal Cleave and now reduces the targets healing received by 5% for 30 seconds. This effect stacks up to 20 times.

Player that complete a full channel of the Manticron Cubes are now effected by Manticron Infusion for 10 seconds, increasing their damage dealt and movement speed by 100%.

Magtheridon has his physical damage dealt reduced by 8% on Flex Difficulty.

Magtheridon has his health reduced by 20% on Flex Difficulty.

Corrected an issue where specific abilities would reset the stacking damage of Wrath of the Pit Lord.

Magtheridon's Blast Nova no longer causes spell pushback.

Magtheridon's Collapse Ceiling no longer ignores armor. Collapse Ceiling damage has been increased by 100%.

Magtheridon's Cleave can now be blocked.

Conflagration has its damage reduced by 66% and now stacks up to 3 times. While standinding in the effects radius a stack is applied every second.

Magtheridon's Conflagration no longer effects pets.

Burning Abyssal's will now deal Physical damage with their attacks instead of Fire damage.

Fire Blast casted by Burning Abyssal's will now ignore any effect increasing or reducing its damage dealt. The damage of Fire Blast has been reduced by 25%.

Summon Burning Abyssal will now ignore any effect increasing or reducing its damage dealt. The damage of Summon Abyssal has been reduced by 25%.

Hellfire Channeler now have a 45 yard maximum range on their Fear and Dark Mending ability. Previously had no limit.

Hellfire Channelers Fear ability now lasts for 3 seconds, down from 6.

Increased the casting time of all Hellfire Channelers abilities to 3 from 2 seconds on Flex Difficulty.

Hellfire Channelers are now vulnerable to cast time increasing effects.

Hellfire Warder now have 45% less health.

Hellfire Warder and Hellfire Channeler will no longer target pets with their Shadowbolt Volley.

Hellfire Warder will no longer target pets with their Shadow Word: Pain.

Pending restart, all Timewalking raid bosses now drop two Badges of Justice.

Corrected an issue where Fire Fire Fireball would not behave correctly after a systemic change was pushed through to the way that proc conditions work.

Fixed some more proc requirement issues.

Pending restart, re-enabled the Fear (Mass Hysteria) Mystic Enchantment.

Pending restart, corrected an issue where Fear (Mass Hysteria) was not properly consumed on damage taken.

Pending restart, corrected an issue where Fear (Shaken) was not properly consumed on damage taken.

Fixed an issue where some procs that require a certain amount of stacks of a buff had lost their requirement.

[Tenacious Companion]: Temporarily disabled while a bug is resolved.

[Launcher] Added NVIDIA video driver detection to automatically disable "Hardware Cursor" on the first run for the 460.89 driver version which is known to have issues with this option.

Reduces antiblock spots in capital cities for placeable gameobject to 6 yards from 30.

Fixed an issue where the temporal contracts would not work for the Call to Arms: Proving Grounds quests.

Fixed an issue where the temporal contracts would not work for the Call to Arms: Battleground quests.

Warbringer O'mrogg inside the Shattered Halls dungeon should no longer damage pets with his Blast Nova and Thunderclap abilities.

Adumbral Pool's casted by The Warden during the Prince Malchezaar encounter will no longer effect pets.

Corrected a rare case where Prince Malchezaar's Enfeeble could miss its target.

Reduced the health of Netherspite by 10% on heroic difficulty.

Shade of Aran's Volatile Polymorph Explosion has its radius reduced to 5 yard down from 8.

Shade of Aran's Fireball and Chain Fireball has its damage reduced by 7% on heroic difficulty.

Shade of Aran's Mass Polymorph now restores 20% of effected players health per second, up from 10%.

Reduced the health of Shade of Aran by 10% on heroic difficulty.

Kil'reks Amplify Flame now increases Fire damage taken by 5%, down from 10%.

Terestian Illhoofs Shadow Bolt is now effected by cast time increasing effects.

Reduced the damage dealt by Nightbane's Final Hour when the effect is dispelled by 10% on heroic difficulty.

Nightbane's Restless Skeletons are no longer immune to bleed effects.

Reduced the health of Nightbane by 10% on heroic difficulty.

Corrected an issue where the Maiden of Virtue would cast Desperate Prayer without a visible cast on heroic difficulty.

The Maiden of Virtue's Holy Ground direct damage has been reduced by 50% and will now apply a damage over time effect to effected targets, dealing additional damage every second over 8 seconds stacking up to 6 times. This damage can break Repentance. The total damage with 6 stacks remains unchanged.

The Maiden of Virtue's Holy Ground has its radius increased to 10 from 8 yards.

The Maiden of Virtue will no longer damage pets with her Holy Ground.

Fixed an issue where Burning Determination wouldn't trigger as intended. [Pending server restart]

Temporarily disabled Mass Hysteria pending a bug fix.

Fixed an issue where Rush of Blood wouldn't reduce the energy cost of Ambush. [Pending server restart]

[Area 52] Added BG Queue Announcer. It will show you how many people are needed for the match to start and announce to the world when the match begins.

[Launcher] You can now enable or disable Hardware Cursor in settings.

Fixed an exploit that allowed some players to remove negative effects such as the Titan's Grip damage penalty.

Fixed an issue where the Shadow Crash damage from the Pure Shadow enchantment wasn't properly being spread between the enemies hit. [Pending server restart]

Re-disabling two deprecated bugged legendary enchants (Primordial Devastation and Elemental Alacrity) which incorrectly became available to players.